In stalled in the camera hotshoe, I will turn the transmitter on and let it trigger the remotes as I press the shutter button on my main camera, or just use the test button to trigger only the remotes, or turn the transmitter off when I want to shoot with the main camera and not the remotes.

Hello everyone i have a question for you when i have the ad200 and the xt transmitter both turned on if i shut off the transmitter and then turn it back on again the 200 modeling light turns on. The only way to shut it off is with the button in the back of the flash it is starting to become a pain if the flash is inside a softbox.

lonerider519 wrote in post #18566239Hello everyone i have a question for you when i have the ad200 and the xt transmitter both turned on if i shut off the transmitter and then turn it back on again the 200 modeling light turns on. The only way to shut it off is with the button in the back of the flash it is starting to become a pain if the flash is inside a softbox.

On the transmitter on the side next to the On/off switch is a slide switch for the modeling light. Are you turning that switch off when you turn off the transmitter?

Edit: Press the Channel button (the one on the top) twice to turn the model light on and off. If you turn the modeling light off by that method before turning the strobe off, it will remember that setting and it will not turn on when you turn the strobe and transmitter on.

PhilipDoes the TF actually know about the soda cans and PVC pipe from 30 years ago?

SereneSpeed wrote in post #18566419The switch on the side of the transmitters are for the AF assist light, no?

I don't know. Since I got the Pro, I have quit trying to figure out the X1 transmitter. I just remembered having to turn off the modeling light from the transmitter for it to stay off all the time. Edit: You are correct. I checked it out hands on and that is how it works. When I originally answered I was not where I could confirm how to do it and I should have waited to answer until I could have been certain I remembered how to do it right.

PhilipDoes the TF actually know about the soda cans and PVC pipe from 30 years ago?

Yesterday I was chatting with a photographer I know who teaches at the Dawson Institute of Photography here in Montreal. I hadn't seen him in a while, and we got to discussing flash gear briefly. I told him I had shelved my Canon speedlights to go all Godox, and asked if he was familiar with the system. He said "Oh yeah - all my students use them. Don't you have issues with TTL?

We didn't have time to get into details, but the simple fact that "Don't you have issues with TTL?" were the first words out of his mouth confirmed for me that my own Godox / TTL experience likely isn't an anomaly. Has there been a thread here (or anywhere) that discusses the relative TTL performance of the X1 system with Canon 5DIII and 5DIV bodies? I know eventually I'll have to do some systematic testing of my own, but I'm interested in collecting any info others may have.

With the 5DIII, when shooting events with an off-camera AD200 triggered by an on-camera V860IIC, when using E-TTL I find I usually have -1/3 or -2/3 FEC dialed in on the camera.

With the 5DIV it seems to need more like -2EV. I confess I haven't done a lot of shooting in this configuration, partly because walking around with -2EV on the camera doesn't "feel" like a good idea. I guess I worry that if I needed to switch to a different flash or configuration suddenly, I don't want the One More Thing of remembering to put the FEC back to normal. (Also, at -2EV you don't have much wiggle room left on the left of that dial)

So for now I'm tending to just avoid the issue by shooting the 5DIV available light and using the 5DIII for flash. If anyone here using both these bodies with off-camera Godoxery in TTL, I'd love to hear your experiences.

I will have to try TTL with my AD200, AD360 (well not TTL with this anyways) and TT685 the next time I have them out. I just use a Sekonic to measure what I need, and go manual on all the lights right now. I don't like variability in the shots using TTL with that many moving parts, so I usually just set each of the 4 lights manually (strobe + 2xAD200 for front, smaller flashes for rim lighting in the back). However I shoot more studio style when I get all these out, so manual works well.

Sony A7R3 Works fine with an Elinchrom trigger (other than I hate the fact that Show Settings is automatically turned off).

But now I am experimenting with Godox lights and trigger. Lights trigger properly when I trigger them via the "Flash" button on the trigger (X1S). But when trigger mounted on the camera, the camera does not see the trigger (Show Auto Settings is turned off), and Sony shutter release does not trigger flashes (trigger flash button does).

I suspect that the problem is a mechanical problem with the Godox trigger shoe (Since the Elincrome trigger works fine), but would like to know if other users have experienced this or similar problem.

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